New site design being tested!

Sorry HQ but the white and grey is just not a clear enough definition I don't have a problem with the font I can't see any difference myself but take the word that others do, the size I can make bigger or smaller myself, but the white/grey look is not very acceptable very unattractive, wish washy and without clear margins
Logo different but no better than the original
Why change it and if a change was in need why not consult the users, we re not in our second dotage Surely our opinion of any differences wanted would have be the best way forward instead of imposing this 'exciting' change (and judging by the 300+ posts we are definitely not finding it exciting) on us

Away for couple of days and it's all change! I'm not keen on white background, tires my eyes after a while. The site now looks a bit insipid I think.

Gosh, I think I am easily pleased.
I cannot get too upset about layout and font changes to be honest.

I like the larger font (maybe a tad TOO large) but (and it might just be my device settings) there seems to be a bit more glare, a very strong contrast between the background and text. I have altered the brightness settings but it makes very little difference.

It's all a bit bright for me, but I am sure I'll adjust. It's easier to read, for sure.

I don't like the font at all. I don't find it easy to read and it's extremely old fashioned. There are so many fonts out there - surely a better one can be selected to try?

Why is it 'extremely old fashioned'? I've just looked through a pile of fairly newly-published books I'm waiting to read, and they're all using serif fonts.

WHY OH WHY, does not your new font make this look shouty!

I digress why no last hour/last day at the bottom of the page.

It all gets worse and worse

They're listed at the top of the page, jollyg (as they were before on the desktop site)

Just adding my pennyworth, I don't like the font, would prefer Ariel or similar and the page is too white for comfortable reading. As Indinana demonstrated, the numbers are very difficult to read too.

This new font/colour scheme may have scored well for readability but it strains my eyes, that did not happen before. Just looked on Mumsnet, it is as clear as day, why does that site get preferential treatment? Obviously whatever I think will not matter, if it did is Gransnet big enough to hold up its hands and say "sorry, we got it wrong, as you were". Some hope.

Ana How many websites you have used recently use serif fonts. Print on paper and print on screen are very different animals and need to be treated differently.

I haven't really noticed, M0nica. It doesn't seem to bother me...

I can't tell the difference either ?

Don't know why ana - it just is!

First thing I did was type my message in my name box! Like others I thought my computer had gone wrong whilst I was out! I have been looking around the site, but I think the old homepage was more exciting for new members to the site. With the menu across the top and lots of announcements to links on the home page I feel the old site showed more of what gransnet has to offer. Not sure people who are not that computer literate will know to click those 3 lines in a circle to see the menu or to click gransnet to return to the home page. Isn't Home usually in a drop down menu.

I like my post being highlighted, so I can easily see what I posted and read on from there.
It is very clean and simple but maybe a bit sterile.
Just trying to give my first reactions. It seems to have turned into an information site rather than a magazine, chatty sight

Final complaint, those annoying little adverts, flickering away there in the centre of every page I go on. I know it is the way to pay for the sight.

Ana, although you may not notice whether there is a serif or not, and few of us do when just reading, we do notice when things are easy to read and when they are not. Look at sites that you find easy to read and those that you find difficult and then look at the type face.

Re my last comments. I was looking at the site on my iPad in landscape view and there was a lot of white area. I went back to the Home page and tuned my iPad around to Portrait view and the home page looks much more interesting. I see the sight has been designed for the large number of people who view it on a mobile phone.

Just looked up serif fonts for those like me who didn't understand. Times Roman is serif as it has little strokes added to the letters.

Now just clicked desktop site at the bottom and low and behold it looks like the old sight. I feel more comfortable. So if I look at it on my phone I should click mobile site, and on my iPad can be both but the mobile sight is better viewed in portrait

Might be a good idea to explain that in your opening post. This is all very interesting.

When I go on desktop on my iPad and in portrait it still doesn't look anything like before for me anjanela
I find it really weird that we all seem to be seeing different things
I m guessing desktop on a desktop, mobile on an iPad or tablet or desktop on iPad /tablet or mobile on a phone must all show up differently

Do all questions posted on here get put on the Gransnet Facebook page? I have only just seen it.

It would be nice if HQ would answer the question put forward by a few of the GNers

Why have the powers that be deemed it necessary to change the site's layout typeface, colour etc??

I would be interested to know if the change is to be beneficial to the users (GNers) or the GN sponsors

In the past myself and other GNers have requested more/better emoji
But we were informed by the techies via HQ that this is not possible.
Have we now got new techies with far reaching abilities ?
If so what about more emoji

Or is it just that the grey background matches our hair

On the desktop no twittering adverts!

Apologies if this has already been mentioned. Have to use the phone for the first time today. On some threads - including this one - I don't have a 'last' button to go to the end of the thread. I'm pretty sure it was ok on the iPad.

I must be going mad yesterday I swear there were over 300 posts on this thread today there's 248 ?? Am I going mad

Having given it a fair trial, I really dislike the lack of contrast on the threads and the list of active threads. I'm not keen on the font either.

I hope GNHQ take on board our comments. I feel that it might have been more polite to give us options before imposing something on us.

And, I do realise that GN is not run for our benefit but we do need to be kept on side or we might just drift off.

Also of concern to me is what other changes are afoot following on from the 'why do you come here' thread. We did, after all, have the cafe imposed on us and I'm not sure what that did except give us a bigger header.